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Sorghum is one of the world’s major cereals, cultivated in the semi-arid tropics for a growing range of uses. Like other crops it faces the need to meet rising demand whilst reducing its environmental impact and adapting to the challenges of climate change. This volume summarises the wealth of research...

Through the Eyes of a Christian Nurse is a book of guidance, encouragement, and inspiration based on lessons learned from some of the life experiences of a christian registered nurse. The candid, honest thoughts and beliefs depicted are based on actual situations, circumstances and people throughout...

A survey of Native American earthlodge research from across the Great Plains. Early explorers initially believed the earthlodge homes of Plains village peoples were made entirely of earth. Actually, however, earthlodges are timber-frame structures, with the frame covered by successive layers...

This is a history of the Le Mans 24 Hours race, which is held annually in Mid-June, from WWII up to the present day (at the time of writing 2018, the running of which is included here). I have been a fan of the race since first becoming a motor racing devotee in the late 1980s, and having been three...

In Volume 1 of this series, attention was focused on neuropoisons of animal origin. In the present volume, attention has been shifted to poisons of plant origin. In both cases, we have attempted to identify those poisons for which there is a large measure of clinical or research interest. Our efforts...

Young Dani Thomas's life is going nowhere. Bored, lonely and hiding a big secret about herself from her family, she elects to leave her home town of Bangor for a short holiday. She intends to find herself, to enjoy herself - to escape herself, if just for a few days. But when she arrives in...

There has been growing concern that both intensive agriculture in the developed world and rapid expansion of crop cultivation in developing countries is damaging the health of soils which are the foundation of farming. At the same time we are discovering much more about how complex soils are as living...

What do you do when everything is taken from you, all that you own, all that you are? Do you roll over and play dead? Or do you fight? I have no memory of my life before, no childhood or family. I woke in pain and it forged me into what I am now. But I managed to escape and have found people...

Marcus Rinaldi moved up the ranks quickly in Chicago’s underworld. But when that life pushed him too far, he found a way out in the US Army during the Iraq War. Flash forward eight years and he is confronted by his dark past before he can even leave the airport. Everybody wants a piece of him from...

Humankind will not accept fundamental ethics, requirements and, the basic needs of human existence. It strives continually to bombastically conquer not only the planet and the universe, but also its greatest enemy and provider, nature itself. Striving for false excellence, exaggerated and propelled...

Scottish college student Mandy Murray is still reeling from the discovery that the people of Southampton, thanks to the act of sabotage committed by the unhinged Jennyfer De Villiers, can turn themselves invisible at will, and become 'The Missing'. Increasingly under siege, both whilst working with...

Bosnia, June 1992 The dissolution of Yugoslavia has descended into brutal civil war, and a new phrase enters the dictionary: Ethnic Cleansing.The conflict should have been prevented by the Lisbon Agreement, but why did one of the signatories renege on the deal? England, September 1992...

Der Band bietet einen umfassenden Überblick zur Benutzung von Metaphern in der Philosophie. 40 Schlüsselmetaphern werden in ihrem Kontext erläutert, und ihre Bedeutungsfelder werden benannt. Renommierte Fachphilosophen, aber auch andere Wissenschaftler haben sich dieser wichtigen Aufgabe angenommen....

~In this future the world has been destroyed by our own hands during the apocalypse war. The year is 3022, infant space age technology has developed as we were forced to move to the moon. Only getting chemical-contaminated water from earth. This might be our future, the realistic direction of our...